William hoeeocks



(No Model.)

W. HORROOKS.

CABINET FOR TYPE WRITERS 0R SEWING MACHINES.

Patented July 24. 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM nonnocxs, or ILION, NEW YORK.

CABINET FOR TYPE-WRITERS OR'SEWING-MACHINES'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,765, dated July 24, 1883,

Application filed October 6, 1882. (No model.)

a To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM HORROOKS, of Ilion, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Cabinet for TypeWriters and Sewing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention consists in providing type-writers and sewing-machines with housings composed in part of hinged leaves, which are adapted to be laid in a horizontal position to form a table-top, and having in their outer edges grooves to guide and support the flexible cover when locked in a vertical position by suitable bolts.

Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective view of my improved cabinet. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of a portion of the cabinet and Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssection of the cabinet, showing the grooves for the sliding cover, with the flexible 'cover removed. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on line as m of Fig. 2. i

The top of the cabinet 0 is supported at each end by a series of drawers, and, when the housing is closed, serves as a table-top. The flexible cover A slides in grooves a, cut in the inner surface and near the edgesof the wings or leaves B. These grooves continue downward through the cabinet-top and terminate in a curve, a, at the bottom, above plate 6, as seen in Fig. 3. The leaves B are hinged at their lower edges to the cabinet-top, and are locked in a vertical position by bolts or catches d. In this position the grooves in the leaves are continuous with the grooves in the lower part of the cabinet, so that by lifting upon the knob e the flexible cover readily slides out of the grooves in the leaves into the grooves below from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Fig. 2. Then by releasing the catches d the leaves may be laid down flat upon the top 0, forming extension-leaves, as shown by broken lines B, Fig. 1. 111 this position the housing is all removed, except a small portion of it, as shown in Fig. 2, which serves, as a back to the top of the cabinet. The plates I) e serve to protect the lower part of the flexible cover from injury, and the plates 6 also serve to form a pocket for waste paper, and the leaves B serve the double purpose of supporting the flexible cover when looked in the vertical position, and of a table-top when turned down flat upon the top of the cabinet.

Having described my invention, what I desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent of the United States is In a cabinet for the support and protection of type-writers and sewing-machines, a hous' ing consisting in part of the hinged leaves B, provided with the grooves a, and also with the bolt (1, for locking them in avertical position, and in combination therewith the flexible cover A, which is supported by said leaves and adapted to run in said grooves, whereby the hinged leaves serve the double purpose ofsupporting the flexible cover when locked in a verticalposition, and of a table-top when laid down flat upon the top .of the cabinet, substantially as shown and described.

- WM. HORROCKS. WVitnesses:

D: LEWIS, WM. H. ELLIOT. 

